Sympathy

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 - 1906)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of Sympathy, by Paul Laurence Dunbar in honor of Martin Luther King Day. Listeners will recognize a line from this poem as being the title of Maya Angelou's 1969 novel I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 14th, 2007.

Genre(s): Poetry, Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Sympathy Annie Coleman Rothenberg
00:01:42
Play 02 Sympathy Claire Goget
00:01:17
Play 03 Sympathy Cori Samuel
00:01:46
Play 04 Sympathy David Barnes
00:01:47
Play 05 Sympathy Beth Peat
00:01:36
Play 06 Sympathy Ezwa
00:01:30
Play 07 Sympathy JimmyLogan
00:01:22
Play 08 Sympathy Kristin Hughes (1974-2021)
00:01:39
Play 09 Sympathy Kristin LeMoine
00:01:57
Play 10 Sympathy Laurie Anne Walden
00:01:24
Play 11 Sympathy Mark F. Smith
00:01:40
Play 12 Sympathy Sean McKinley
00:01:32
Play 13 Sympathy Sam Fold
00:01:35
Play 14 Sympathy Sean McGaughey
00:01:46
Play 15 Sympathy Ted Delorme
00:01:49
Play 16 Sympathy Val Grimm
00:01:36